Actually looking at practical, realistic solutions instead of just targeting whatever company or CEO you’ve heard bad things about would probably result in better outcomes long term. I see a lot of pure “anti-tech” sentiment around which although understandable isn’t really going to fix anything because at the end of the day the technology exists, Pandora’s box has been opened and you will always have a share of people who will NOT stop using it, for whatever reason.

If you boycott PayPal it’s just going to be replaced by an equivalent service by some other company that might seem better at first but will eventually enshittify like all the other ones. The same could be said about any LLM/AI company. Or any social media company.

I believe to actually “solve” these issues we need regulation. Companies will not stop chasing profits and they won’t stop building data centers just because a minority of people on Lemmy really hate it. Humanity will not simply forget that AI exists just because we “collectively” agree to do so. That didn’t work for the nuclear bomb or global warming, so why would we expect it to work now? On the other hand, if we actually accept that the tech is there now we can actually invest our energy in making the tech compatible with our society (and the planet).

Deprivatize data centers, put them entirely under government oversight and provide strict environmental regulations. Make AI a public utility and require full transparency from its providers. Finance public research of AI and its effects. We should focus on this unless we want to just see a replay of net neutrality and social media algorithms where the companies responsible for doing a huge amount of damage to our society only get a slap on the wrist 10-15 years from now when everyone has already accepted the idea that you can’t have AI without capitalism. Because that idea is exactly the illusion that these companies are trying to sell right now, but it’s simply not the truth.

Forspoken has one of the best battle and movement gameplay systems in gaming, or at the very least in the “power fantasy sandbox” genre. Its story and dialogue are also a very cute, earnest take on Isekai that didn’t deserve the backlash they got. It has its flaws but it’s absolutely nowhere close to being the utter cringe-fest and terrible game that people like Asmongold successfully convinced the rest of the internet it was (because it has a female POC protagonist, basically). Personally, as someone who wanted to live the ultimate elemental wizard power-fantasy in a game since I was a child, Forspoken gave me everything I wanted and more (like cats! Lots of adorable cats).

If you like Prototype and JRPGs you should check out Forspoken, which would be my pick for this thread. The bad reviews and memes were just gamergate bullshit. Despite its flaws, it’s the ultimate wizard power fantasy, with movement and combat that to me felt like a refined and even more fun/complete version of what we got from games like Prototype, Crackdown and Saints Row 4. Once you begin unlocking multiple magic types and get into the flow of switching them around on the fly it really provides some of the best and most satisfying gameplay I remember in my 30+ years of gaming.

That’s not true though, and I don’t regret buying it. You can make shaved ice, milkshakes, froyo, sorbets, and (basically) actual ice cream or gelato with a fraction of the work compared to an ice cream maker.

The only issue I have isn’t with the machine itself but the way people online are promoting it as only what you’re describing. You can absolutely use traditional ice cream or gelato recipes, which I did to pretty awesome results after I realized I wouldn’t find that sort of content on YouTube. As long as you have the proportions down for fats, thickeners and sugars, the consistency is almost indistinguishable from the traditional counterpart. You can also find a ton of cool or even gourmet recipes for Pacojet and adjust them for the Creami.

It’s a pretty fun machine that actually opens up a lot of options for desserts and culinary experimentation. My point was that the actual waste of 170$ is buying it only to make frozen versions of protein shakes (which will at best always end up as “fancy shaved ice” like you said because those recipes lack the ingredient ratios of actual ice cream).

Slightly OT, but I bought a Ninja Creami a couple years ago, excited about all the crazy ice cream recipes and experiments I would find online. Little did I know that 99% of content creators with a Ninja Creami only make disgusting looking protein powder ice cream over and over and over. What’s the recipe for chocolate ice cream? Chocolate protein powder. And for vanilla ice cream? Vanilla protein powder. And for strawberry ice cream? Strawberry protein powder, of course. And so on.

I have nothing against adding protein to your diet/recipes but this is just ridiculous at this point.

Democracy tends to come with law systems and due process to prevent this from happening. Unlike, you know, Nazism.

Oh wow, who knew. The whole thread simply shouldn’t exist then.

It’s an insanely boring game with no depth. To each their own, but calling it a “really good game” is as much of a stretch as calling it “shit”. To me it felt like a Hogwarts walking simulator with a bunch of basic unrelated minigames stuck onto it, marketed as an open world action rpg. The combat was insulting.